Example sentences of "is a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a splendidly versatile way of patterning so spend a little time trying it out before you start on ‘ moon craters ’ . |
| 2 | AND may I just say how very much I hope , trust and , indeed , cuddle , that this is a splendidly fluffy , golden and slender-thighed morning for you , as it is , in a very real sense , for me too . |
| 3 | Less likeable is a thoroughly daft idea by Rochdale Council to purchase compulsorily weavers ' cottages in Clegg , Lancashire . |
| 4 | Roads and Traffic is that response … supported by the Department of Transport , it is a thoroughly comprehensive , up-to-date publication … invaluable to both new and experienced practitioners as well as in teaching institutions throughout the world . ’ |
| 5 | The filmwork has been undertaken by Video Action for the Touring & Recreation Committee and the result is a thoroughly professional film , well edited with its own music and with such techniques as slow motion and freeze frame used where necessary but not excessively . |
| 6 | That is a thoroughly unsatisfactory way of calling our Heads of Government and that Council to democratic account for their actions to this House and to our people . |
| 7 | It has the typical mottled white face of the colour-sided cline and is a thoroughly practical type , healthy , fertile , ‘ rustic ’ and very good at utilising the type of forage found in the Massif Vosges . |
| 8 | It is a thoroughly good idea in order to obtain a wide range of nutrients . |
| 9 | It appears to us that the point is a thoroughly esoteric one because it postulates that the judges had consented to arrangements for the Inns to exercise disciplinary powers over barristers , subject to their supervision , which infringed some fairly elementary rules of natural justice . |
| 10 | With the possible exception of the towns of Bremen and Hamburg and the ‘ Free State ’ of Bavaria , where strong regional loyalties are important , Germany is a thoroughly homogeneous nation-state ( before the annexation of the five new Länder , at least ) . |
| 11 | It 's a telling detail , this appreciation of cafes , and one which ( with his turn-of-the-century clothes and his clipped Viennese psychiatrist accent ) hints that Daniel Barenboim is a thoroughly modern maestro with a thoroughly old-fashioned sensibility . |
| 12 | Contrary to opinion , Gooch is a thoroughly happy man . |
| 13 | Contrary to opinion , Gooch is a thoroughly happy man . |
| 14 | Not so well known as the New World , it is a thoroughly enjoyable work . |
| 15 | For this is a thoroughly land-locked story in land-locked country . |
| 16 | Billy is a thoroughly American creation , a Broadway mogul , dandy and gossip columnist with a ‘ bug-like tropism for publicity ’ . |
| 17 | That is a thoroughly fair system . |
| 18 | As Jimmy , Hoffman elaborates the film role that made him famous , Benjamin in The Graduate , and he is a thoroughly charming actor with sufficient off-beat idiosyncrasies to make him a spiny delight . |
| 19 | Mr Benn is a thoroughly charming man , and I was pleased to pay tribute to him when I got up to speak . |
| 20 | Clearly this is a thoroughly British policy , but it is also thoroughly pagan . ’ |
| 21 | Asked if Krupp , which is also involved in engineering , might stop steel production , Mr Cromme said : ‘ That is a thoroughly realistic idea . |
| 22 | Iain Banks is a thoroughly Scottish writer , and The Crow Road has already been identified as his ‘ crisis ’ novel : a notable softening of the baroque violence and elaboration of the earlier books and the sideline science fiction ( where Banks hides under the minimal false moustache and wig of a middle initial ) . |
| 23 | Perhaps the very opening of the slow movement , marked pianissimo , could have been softer , but generally speaking , this is a thoroughly idiomatic and sensitive reading . |
| 24 | The ‘ maid ’ in the villa in which I am lodged for the purposes of research ( she is a statuesquely beautiful and highly intelligent woman who is called ‘ maid ’ , rather in the way the South Africans call elderly black servants ‘ boy ’ ) suffered the horror of seeing both her parents shot by the Germans whilst the aristocrats from the local castle entertained the S.S. officers to black market dinners of wild boar and chocolate sauce . |
| 25 | If the passenger is not in possession of a licence , but states he is the holder of the necessary licence , further enquiries will be made by the police officer to ascertain whether or not he is a duly licensed driver . |
| 26 | In the case of suburban-type housing , the view of domestic life it ultimately reflects is a strongly traditional one that has its origins in the early development of industrial capitalism and the ensuing ideological split between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ life developed by the Victorian bourgeoisie . |
| 27 | This is interesting since there is evidence ( for example , Tung , 1984 ) that Japan is a strongly hierarchical culture and that status and face are emphasized . |
| 28 | Balm used to be one of the most important herbs in the garden , as it is a strongly bee-orientated plant . |
| 29 | It is a strongly rural range of occupations , and it is especially striking how few were regular manual employees . |
| 30 | From this internal knowledge of Belfast English we can conclude that the speaker who says [ ku : ] for queue is using a careful style strategy to avoid the palatalized segment ( see my comments on avoidance of stigma in chapter 2.6 , above ) , which is a strongly regional marker and also a marker of older male speech . |